Homoeopathy, as practised in Manchester : contrasted with its alleged principles / by William Roberts.

  • Roberts, Sir William, 1830-1899.
Date:
1862
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Credit: Homoeopathy, as practised in Manchester : contrasted with its alleged principles / by William Roberts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tlie hair ; redness and inflammation of the white of the eye ; itching rash-like eruption behind the ears ; bleeding of the nose ; eruption on the vermilion border of the lips, smarting as if excoriated ; deep painful fissure in the middle of the upper lip; hiccough after a meal; cramp in the stomach ; violent hoarseness ; bloody cough ; forehead feels as if it would burst; frequent palpitation of the heart; violent drawing pain in the nape of the neck ; painful cracking of the elbow-joint during motion ; rash in the legs; amorous dreams ; when laying the arms on the table the blood ceases to circulate, also in other parts of the body; warts form on the palm of the hand ; all the muscles, especially those of the thighs and upper arms, are painful during motion, as if the flesh had been detached by blows ! &c., &c,—Jahr's New Manual, by Mempel and Quin, vol. ii., pp. 299-322. The conditions required in a good “ prover ” are, that he should be in good health, and be moderate in eating and drinking. I trust there are thousands of such in Manchester, who daily season their eggs, or their boiled and roast, with salt, and I would ask how many expe- rience any of these four hundred and fifty terrible symptoms 1 Silica, or flint—of which we are taking daily minute doses in every draught of water, and in every morsel of bread, is alleged to produce eighteen closely printed pages of prominent symptoms, and yet who feels them ? Here are some of them :— Symptoms produced by Silica, or Flint.—Violent compunction of conscience about trifles; vertigo with retching ; groaning shaking of the brains [whatever that may be] when stepping firmly, or when knocking the foot against something; disagreeable feeling, as if the head D